Improvement in sash-holders



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NATEAN J. EEIGS'oE WEST HAvEncoENEcTIcUT, ASSIeNoE 'ro HIE- f SEEE AnnE. E. MEEEIMAN, oE SAME PLAcE.

4Letters Patent No. 103,223, dated May 17, 1870.

IMROVEMENT IN BASE-HOLDERS.

The Schedule refexred to in these Letteg Patent and making part of the,saunel Haven, in t-h'e county oi' New Haven and State of Connecticut,have invented a new Improvement in iSash-Locks; and l do hereby declarethe following,

-avhenj takenin connection with the accompanyingdrawing and the lettersof reference'marked thereon, "to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the same, anl1 which said drawing coustitntes'part of thisspeciliication, andrepresentsa sectional view of the frame *and sash,with the lock applied. My inventionl relates to a sash-lock, so arrangedas ito be held to allow the application of both `hands to "the raisingof the sash. Sash-locks havebeen before constructed in which a Ihooli orholder was so vpivote-d in the sash as to fall, iby its own gravity,into a notch in the casing, and cornbi-ned with a lever pivoted to thehook, by means of which lever the hook is forced back to ii'ee the sash,r `the lever being constructed so as toeatch `upon a projection or notchupon the sash to hold the hooli'raised .away from its notches, so thatboth handsmayl be 1applied to the sash.

Myimprovement' consists in pivotingthe hook or :holder in the casing andmaking the notches, and lalso theprqiection which holds the levernponthe lsash, s o that the raising of the sash automatically relleases thelever and allows the hook to fall, while, in the old form, -where the'hook and lever-catch are both Font-he sash, the, lever must be releasedby hand. A is the frame.

B, the sash. s

C, a hook or lever, constructed with a projection, a, and pivoted in theframe at d, so that, by its own gravity, the'hook will swingforward tocarry the projection a intoa notch in the sash.

' *D is a lever, pivoted to'the hook at f, by means ot' which the hookis thrown back from tlife sash, as (lenoted in broken lines, and thelever is provided with a notch, n, so that when pressed back to throwthe hook from the sash, as denoted in broken lines, the

said notch will catch np'on a pin, s, on the sash,as denoted in brokenlines, and thus hold the hook away from the sash.

Heldin this position, both hands may be applied to the sash, and, whenthe sash is raised so far as to clear the pin s from the notch InJ inthe lever, t-hen the hook will ret-urn against the sash, and t-heprojection enter the iii-st notch which presents itself'.

It will be evident that other devices than the pin s and notch'n may beprovided to hold the lever, but this I believe to be the best practicalmea-ns of so doing.

I claiin as my invention vThe hookO, constructed and pivotcd in thecasing as described, and combined with the lever D, pivoted Vto thehook, and the pin or projection s on the sash,

to catch the lever D, so that the raising of the sash trips the lever,in the manner set tin-th.

N. J. MEIGS.

Witnesses:

A. J. ltB1s1Ts, J. H. SHUnwAY.

